
Patrick Kidd
@patrick_kidd
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Scribbler for whoever will pay me. Author of The Weak Are A Long Time In Politics: https://t.co/zg1eoouBh6. Also churchwarden at @asblackheath
Joined March 2011
RT @ChurchTimes: In this week's Notebook, @patrick_kidd ✍️ on an admirable sense of duty, losing friends, and becoming a president. https://….
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“Four things are never forgiven a foreign correspondent: 1) to be a coward, 2) to drop his colleagues in the shit, 3) to be mean, and 4) – a long way behind – is to get things wrong.” The wisdom of Sandy Gall in my @ObserverUK obituary of him last week.
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Wimbledon's new camera line judge, who I've called Hugh after McEnroe's old pal Hugh Cannaby-Serious, is welcome if it makes snap decisions but the odd gaffe reminds us that robots can be human too and bad luck is part of sport. Wrote this for @spectator .
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RT @spectator: 🎙️ The Edition: Peerless – the purge of the hereditary peers. 🔸 Charles Moore and @SophiaFalkner on Keir’s peer purge.🔸 @_F_….
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The Lord’s Test starts today and it won’t be the same without Fingers, a constant presence for 57 years. I wrote his obituary for @ObserverUK. In a lovely tribute @HomeOfCricket have agreed to drape his XXXL MCC blazer over his customary pavilion seat.
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RT @patrick_kidd: Eel Pie Island, in the Thames by Twickenham, was once home to a blues club that hosted the Rolling Stones 24 times. Now i….
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RT @SarahDuggers: @patrick_kidd I used to have a boyfriend who lived there and it’s all fun and games until you have to phone in to a new j….
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RT @NewsUKArchives: @patrick_kidd from The Times archive a pic: Duchess of York, with the Duke of York at the Civil service Regatta at Eel….
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An excellent side sport has broken out at Henley Regatta, where men often outpeacock women: trousers snooker. Is there also a blazer/tie version? Remenham would run up quite a large break just with one pair of socks.
For the start of today's racing, we are beginning a game of trouser snooker! The rules of the game: white (0), red (1), yellow (2), green (3), brown (4), blue (5), pink (6), and then black trousers (7). Updates to come!.
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Last Friday I became president of @OldColcestrians, yesterday @crgscc won their first match at the Royal Grammar Schools Cricket Festival since 2017. A coincidence? Well, obviously. But I’m delighted for them. Must have been inspired by hearing me talk about making a catch once….
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It was British discipline and drumstick moustaches vs American razzmatazz and pom-poms as seven marching bands of different styles paraded and competed at Hampton Court to close London Band Week. My latest Sketches of London dispatch for @thetimes.
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Viewed from afar, the Matterhorn looks compact but up close it's "like a croissant; on the surface everything is falling apart". A fascinating and concerning piece by @GWhittell on how the Alps are melting.
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